BuddyDean

Treated CM muni water, west side.  

1 minute ago, NanLaew said:

I have one of those 2-stage faucet filters and always use this water for cooking, baking, etc..

Yeah, I should probably get a faucet filter, but our machine is only .50 per liter, not in their blood to be good with filters, though.

I brought back a nice stash of pasta from my home, and was wondering if there was a steadfast opinion on this.  

My condo doesn't have a pool or gym, which I am glad, as it would almost always be as poorly managed money pit.  Allow a private guy to park there and charge.  Always better to live near the main road..I am 70m and even with a 5m wide road, I look back over my shoulder four times on the 32 second walk.

I would look more along the MRT..Sutisan, Huai Kwang, Thai Cult Center....a lot more centrally located to different areas.  I saw a condo about 700 m from the end of the line..Samrong..for 233,000 THB on the WWW.BAM.CO.TH website.  Wasn't awful, and nicer area than some of the lower priced in the huge buildings near On But.

Could be fine, but they will nail you on electric and deposit.  Agreed less than three months, get on Agora, string together some 10 day hotel stays....they will have deals the front desk never offer.  I stayed three nights at Siam Privi for 20 USD (<7 usd per night)  Total.  Air, TV, views, clean, frig....secure.  20 THB moto ride to Huai Kwang MRT...or 8 THB shuttle....found a club open until at least 3:30, cos that is when I left.  28 SM......Sukhumvit sucks....a magnet for Africans, Chinese, Arabs, Ladyboys, and scammers.  Bangkok is great, otherwise.

Google is 11.43 THB pm...maybe no connection fee.

If that is the only trick I have to do next week at CM; I will be buying lady drinks for all.

5 watt LED Corn Lights....incredibly bright.  65 THB, delivered....banggood.

4 minutes ago, Tchooptip said:

I call my friends and even my bank in Europe with Skype for next to nothing for years. I mean I called the telephones numbers, not Skype which is free of course.

With a Sim card from any company, it would have cost a fortune.

|I've called numbers in the US for free for years using Google Hangouts.

Skype is 13.4 per minute and 2.9 connect fee....on the pay as you go plan...to call Myanmar.

48 minutes ago, mania said:

OP's name is mrblonde so..... :)

And staying on LK with a UK GF....I can see why he needs extra light; not a very bright candle, himself.

Obviously, but many can't make an instant switch, if at all.  Agree about the Thai clothes, big exception would he the shoes, and it really hurts them in athletics.  Most are very poor runners, and so few have proper shoes for being on a track or field.  The sandals don't give much arch support to a rapidly growing foot.  Their own medical experts have stated lack of real milk has hurt their IQs, with the average Thai kids is closer to 90, than 100..and that is downright frightening.

711, Tesco, electric supply on south side of MOAT, between Tesco and Fire Station.  Larger socket is E27...

Unless it is a private monopoly.

43 minutes ago, heybruce said:

I get Tiger at Tops.  It's a little more expensive than the big two, but not a lot.  It's also not great beer, just not as offensive as the what the duopoly pushes.

Yep, now 2 x 116...so just a smidgen more than the duo, and it ic clearly in a different league or even Heineken at 3 x 201...10 THB more for a large H over a large L?  Almost nothing....and as Anita Bryant used to say:  not just for breakfast.  150 for a small Cambodian beer? Be my guest, but I think H & T would be the best way to hurt the culprits.

BTW, what happened to the Lao dark fad?  Did it lose steam..hadn't heard it mentioned lately.  Not as good as Yuengling black and tan, but also better than the duo, but then again so are Anchor and Angkor.

Most Korean kids can use CAD, and Lowes, HD trains its employees on the bathroom and kitchen designs..they are making a fraction of what the people make, who actually set the fixtures.  It has just been done to death.  There are about 40,000 toilets in Thailand that need to be properly refitted...maybe she should consider.  A friend ius an architect and her specialty is model trees...as in little one inch high pine tree replicas they use for the landscaping of the building model.  Highly specialized, and took her 40 years to get where she's at.  She was the one who had actually given me insight on the architecture profession.  I had asked her about a plan for some land I owned...she said you would have to be crazy to pay an architect to draw you a custom house plan when there are so many, so cheap in public domain.  There is even software, where you show a photo, it gives you the plan.  Even carpentry has been mostly fazed out.  The big home builders use pre fab walls and trusses...no need for them.

11 minutes ago, NancyL said:

I think you may be right, because when I look at the firms she's worked for, or rather the buildings and projects they've done and she's worked on, I'm in awe.  They're probably the "rock stars" of that industry.   But, when I was a lowly M.E. student I also worked for some pretty impressive firms in my summer jobs and got paid about 80% of the starting salary for a new graduate.  Each summer, I earned enough to pay my tuition for the following year.  

 

My brother, who didn't major in the sciences, thought that's the way it would be for his daughter, who "inherited" the science skills of his father and sister.  My brother majored in Hotel & Restaurant management and he ALWAYS had a paying job anywhere he went.  He just figured his really smart daughter should be earning her way by now.   

 

This is something that's happened to our world in the past 30 years, part of the "rich get richer and the poor get poorer" phenomenon.  

More like entitled kids think they get to start out on top...it was the same way with the law and accounting firms.  Be a go fer at a big prestigious firm and kiss butt enough to maybe be a partner in 20 years...or simply go into your own practice and build your own reputation.  Skyscrapers are mostly prefab, nowadays.  Especially in Asia, which accounts for most of them.  Architects were dealt big blows by CAD, before the internet became popular, and that was another nail.  I remember sitting next to some disgruntled aerospace engineers on a casino junket out of San Jose.  The advent of CAD was the end of the world for them.  But hey, my niece is an architect sounds good in the all important social circles.  She'll still never make more than a good plumber or electrician.

Some kind of pretentious, private school...complete with Filipino teachers.  Same pile of crap.  Maybe you would be better able to support them from the US...would probably make a lot of people happy.

Private schools can enroll whomever they choose.  You are an embarrassment to yourself.  Transportation is a critical part of education.  Filipino teacher? Sounds like a pretend international school, where they speak four languages, but none better than an 8 year old.

This has pretty much been the scene at a Tesco Express for the last two years.  One of the busiest intersections in the province, too.  Obviously, there is collusion to only sell "the two."  I am willing to boycott, but I just wonder how many thousand warm C & L, the craft touts have consumed, on the six days a week, they cant afford to be pretentious with their alcohol.

Living with MIL and an illegitimate kids......the nurse might make 15k.....sounds like Hell to me...and rough on your own finances.  Cars motorbikes, medical bills, tuition....there will be something new every week, if not day.

and they kept going back for more....must be a pretty good vintage of warm Chang.....could underage drinkers be a factor?  I wonder if they are check

ing who the parents are before the murders.  Seems like it would be the easiest way to get off Scot free.  One million CCTV in CM....let me guess..not here?  Well chain the 10 together in a cell and get a Maejo student to play her violin....they will sing.

This reminds me of an old Broadway screenplay...but I can't recall the name of it...."on the other hand; on the other hand"..... darn, can't remember.  What was the name of it?